These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You ...

FORMAT drive: [/V[:label]] [/Q] [/U] [/F:size] [/S] [/D] FORMAT drive: [/V[:label]] [/Q] [/U] [/T:tracks /N:sectors] [/S] [/D] FORMAT drive: [/V[:label]] [/Q] [/U ...

Say bye, bye to the 3.5. After nearly 30 years, the once dominate 3.5-inch floppy disk will soon go the way of the cassette tape. With the advent of CDs and later, DVDs, the use of the plastic floppys ...

Everyone knows what a floppy disk is, but a common question, is how do I clean out a floppy so that it can be used again? I have spoken to many people who have said that after they store information ...

For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented, but there remains a corps of experimenters for whom the classic removable storage format still holds some fascination. The interface for a ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...